Cover Album: Technically all of them. But Dick at Nite aims for television opening themes instead of regular songs.

The Cover Changes the Gender: Averted, always, even when the song is "Don't Cha". Becomes especially bizarre when he covers "My Neck, My Back", where he sings about his vagina, and parodied on Lords Of Acid's "Pussy", where he's talking about Siegfried and Roy's tiger.

"Just Dance" inverts it somewhat, where the song's upbeat tune is made into a sombre jazz song, on top of Richard laying out what was Lyrical Dissonance into the obvious. "Now she's drunk, lost, no communication, can't get home because she can't find her keys, and now she can't see, ladies and gentlemen."

A less straight (tee-hee) example is "Relax", which slows down the pace quite a bit to go from hard and fast fucking to slow lovemaking. Until he finally says "come".

Digital Piracy Is Evil: Due to the fact that most of the royalties of his music go to the original artists, he obviously does not take kindly to fans pirating his music. His threats of legal actions toward pirates only got worse when he was unable to afford surgery for keratoconus due to lack of funds. Often, during shows, he'll lightly admonish people recording via film (you can hear a track where he gropes a woman recording).

Epic Fail: He spends the entirety of the "Viva La Vida" cover trying to figure out the piano notes for several painful minutes, messing up things he gets right the first time, and then getting beaten by Bobby for touching his piano.

In the Style of...: Occasionally mixes up the Lounge covers: for example, "Enter Sandman" by Metallica is done in the style of the Chordettes' version of "Mr. Sandman", and his live version of "Don't Cha" has him parody ABBA, George Takei, Bob Dylan, the Doobie Brothers... at times he breaks out imitations such as Björk during a performance.

Lyrical Dissonance: Must we say? Things like "Enter Sandman" and "Man in the Box" become 50s-style Chordettes pop and smooth tango music, respectively. Sometimes actually inverted: for example, "Beat It" becomes somewhat more somber, as does "Just Dance", both of which have pretty dark subject matter. He also has slow, dark, sentimental songs... about looking for "a bad bitch" or how he wants to bend you over his Lamborghini. There are exceptions, such as "Perfect Situation", which is oddly even darker than the original song.

Our Lawyers Advised This Trope: With a fake duet with Lieutenant Sulu (who is not the Sulu... and he's not George Takei, either - Richard Cheese is a Takei impersonator), Richard Cheese's lawyer personally calls him up to see if he did the disclaimer and made sure he said "Celebrity Voices Impersonated".

Also at concerts, getting the latest lyrics of the newest, most popular song (Lil' Wayne's Lollipop, Gangnam Style) off the internet, and proceeding to butcher it deadpan by doing a straight reading of the lyrics.

Stage Name: Richard Cheese is really Mark Jonathan Davis (not to be mistaken for the guy from Korn), meaning he invoked all those YouTube comments pointing out his name is Dick Cheese. The Lounge members are also given rather cheese-based silly names—Bobby Ricotta (Noel Melanio), Frank Feta (Brian Fishler), and Billy Bleu (unknown).

Self-Titled Album: Inverted; Cheese used synthetic instruments for his first album, and then named his actual band after said album when he got one for the second.

Small Name, Big Ego: All a part of his stage persona. When the news broke that Glee had ripped off Jonathan Coulton's cover of "Baby Got Back", his immediate reaction on Facebook was to speculate that his would be next.

ATTENTION GLEE: I know you are already thinking about copying one of my swingin' swanky arrangements and using it on your show. I don't blame you, I'm awesome.

Silent Nightclub is a Christmas-themed album, and contains one of the band's original songs, about... well, make an educated guess from the title.

"Star Wars Cantina" is another original song, which is a summation of the original Star Wars trilogy, set to "Copacabana".

There's "RC on the Air" off of Vida la Vodka, which is a collection of all of Dick's radio appearances.

I'd Like a Virgin has a hidden track where a covered band calls up the band to congratulate them, a Mexican hotel owner offering Dick and the band some free rooms at a hotel... and Dick asking for some donkeys, Dick hitting the microphone with his dick, and asking a woman to open her legs during a concert. OK Bartender inserts random drunken messages left by fans on Dick's phone between songs.

Song Parody: Inverted. The lyrics are kept largely the same, but the tunes are radically changed. The only straight-forward example is "Star Wars Cantina", which is "Copacabana" with the lyrics rewritten to be a plot summary of the Star Wars original trilogy.

"Yellow" may also qualify—the lyrics are the same, but they're applied to the theme from Brazil, which does have its own lyrics.

Take That: In the live version of "Lollipop", Richard Cheese claims to have gotten the latest lyrics of his good friend, Lil' Wayne. They're all gibberish, except for "Shorty wanna", "lollipop", and "pussy".

Viva Las Vegas: The band's actually based out of Los Angeles, but Las Vegas is a common theme and destination spot for them. There's a reason why "Christmas in Las Vegas" was their first original song.

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